Power Tools

Power Tools
$50.00

Why use a Power Tool? These tools and activities are used to solve simple and complex challenges from a person's perspective. This can be used for personal or professional challenges. They are not meant to support a role, but the person in the role navigating the challenge. They improve visibility of impacts, reduce decision fatigue, improve quality of information for decision making & taking action.  

Power tools, are tools that can be pull into a challenge at anypoint. They have the capability to identify information & actions needed to resolve challenges, enhance skill-building, and be used in everyday life. They can be used in many different challenges and build skill with every use. 

 

Additional Information

Tools include:

  • Identify the Impact Zone - Exercises to identify the impacts around the challenge.
  • Information Quality Check - Excercises to identify first hand, hearsay, or historic information & prioritize.
  • Gap Analysis - Activity to identify areas that have gaps in information, how much, & how to fill it.
  • Friction, Flex, & Firm Worksheet - Exercises to identify & track areas in the challenge that have friction, are flexible, or firm. 
  • Auto Pilot Worksheet- Exercises to identify actions that are automatic/common that are helping or harming progress. 
  • Know Your Role - Exercises to identify participation level & expectations of role in advance or as reflection.
  • I don't know? Activity - Exercises using I don't know as a starting point to resolve ambiguity. Supports Intake & other activities.

 

 

  • Decision Lifecycle Activity - Exercises to identify your current style of decision making and customize to fit challenges at hand or ahead.
  • Hats & Batons Activity - Exercises to identify areas that need a role, attach activities to role, and set it up to pass along. 
  • Brainstorming Session - Prompts & Exercise for brainstorming sessions & recommendations for tools 
  • What does failure look like? - A shallow or deep dive into what failure looks like? Then a step back to evaluate & recommendations for tools.
  • Test it. Is it true? Exercises in identifying when information & situations change to test actions before leaping & evaluation tool. If...then exercise. 

 

These tools can be incorporated into existing or new processes.